Just look at that. This truck is taller than a used kid (10 years old). I assume the truck can run over pretty much any other age but probably the driver might be able to see older kid’s heads. Or we could teach our kids to jump to school rather than walk. If you see a truck, jump and make eye contact before jumping while crossing the street. Or we could tell our kids to never go outside until they are 21.
The perfect height to deliver devastating head and chest injuries. It’s almost like they deliberately designed this thing to kill kids.
Not to mention it’s so high up and the hood is so massive, you can’t see the ground for like 10 feet in front of it.
Bicycle or skateboard usually, if I have to drive it’s either a 5 speed Subaru Legacy or a Prius
I drive a civic but ask the average American and you might hear something like this. https://youtu.be/MI7Tq6sRxE4
2016 kia soul, it’s named “sir-hops-a-lot” because the gas petal is sensitive and someone who hasn’t driven it will ‘hop’ (also my love of frogs and that it’s green).
(picture is a bit inaccurate due to the year)It was like ~$11.5k and we got it from a pretty small car dealership which is family owned that doesn’t squabble about prices. What’s on the website is what you get.
I love my little frogmobile to death :3Can we get a picture of your flower shaped gas pedal?
A 2005 Ford Focus is my kid deadening tool of choice.
2001 RadPower Radrunner 2, a 2018 Chevy Bolt, and a 2008 Dodge Sprinter that runs on used cooking oil. The sprinter smells of fish and chips when I actually need that capacity of carry ability.
Even the Sprinter’s hood is at least a foot and a half, if not two feet lower than that monstrosity, and I can shove way more into it than that thing can carry. I know because I have used it to move 10 ton loads of river rocks for a friend that was removing their lawn.
I drive a 20 ton vehicle with dual rear tires, it gets about 4 mpg. I don’t own a car though.
(I drive a city bus)
bruh… a used kid
But can we talk about how comically awful those tiny-ass wheels look that raised truck
Looney-toons-ahh-truck, smh
Technically they aren’t that badly sized. You don’t want the whole wheel well filled with the tire, it needs room to move around. If they were ever to go offroading they would have plenty of room without their tires scraping against the body of the truck, although this pavement princess probably never sees dirt.
Just gonna keep on posting this
I’m surprised a school bus isn’t on this list
I swear GM and Ford are competing with each other on blind spot length
I like how they put a golf cart in there.
That’s a tuktuk
This truck is taller than a used kid (10 years old).
Well there’s your problem: you’ve got a used kid. New kids are, on average, about 5’9" - plenty tall to compete with today’s civilian tanks.
Donnie Wahlberg was a New kid on the block??? Wow. I had no idea!
I’m used to the normal transition between toddler pupae to child-like human. That’s when I though children were brand spanking new.
You know Mark Walberg was in a funky bunch right?
what’s the mileage on it?
I used to live on a farm without trash pickup, so she got a good bit of work done. Not longer on the farm since my parents passed, but didnt have the courage to trade her in since it was my moms favorite vehicle.
Still get the occasional full load since I’m a big dude with a truck. Makes me feel good helping out people with small cars.
I drive a Gazelle.
Here’s another such killer truck just steps from the previous one in the same parking area.
All the cars in that picture are ginormous. That’s crazy. Cars are trending to be larger here in Europe, but that is something else.
You know that kid is just like “Mom, can we just go home? No I don’t wanna stand in front of any more trucks! Mom, stop being weird.”
Why do people forget that not everyone lives in an urban place without deer or other dangerous wildlife encounters at high speed on the road?
The increase in height is not a narcissism thing. I agree however that trucks of this height need to be outfitted with better sensors to make sure pedestrians don’t end up dead in bad encounters.
Meanwhile, everywhere else in the world which has the same dangers, which isn’t the US: no manslaughtering penis enlengthernes, just regular station wagons and the occasional Subaru. Curious how that is.
Idk about rest of the world, but let’s take Europe.
Fact is that European cities have smaller roads and many places in Europe are denser. Europeans have been getting bigger cars just the same as Americans, https://www.motor1.com/news/707996/vehicles-larger-than-ever-usa-europe/
Don’t care about this topic that much, I just think discounting the experience of people who are impacted by more wildlife encounters is just very narrow minded.
I live in northern Sweden, a region which is sparsely populated and mostly forests. We can encounter wildlife on the road regularly, especially when the Sámi move their reindeer herds. The observation of mostly station wagons and occasional Subaru Forester and very rarely an (old, but reasonably sized) pickup is my own.
I remember hearing about it in the mandatory risk training we have to take to get our drivers licence, that if you hit a deer or a moose (they’re also very common here) with a car they’re meant to roll on the hood and then over the car. But a semi will just hit them dead on, but they’ve got enough momentum the impact and they’re designed to be able to take the blow. Either way, I’d much rather run in to a deer with my Volvo V70/XC70 than a F150.
No one forgot rural areas exist.
It is 100% a narcissism thing. The entire rest of the world does just fine with regular sized vehicles. Sensors are never going to replace actually just seeing. Really all you end up with is a vehicle with way more blind areas (because a vehicle like that doesn’t have blind spots, it’ now likes blind regions).
I vote for sensors installed under the driver’s forehead.
We can increase their scanning efficiency by removing obstructions in the vehicle’s design. Less construction, fewer moving parts, simpler design.
You know what would be a lot simpler and cheaper? Busses and trains and neighborhoods designed so that you can walk or bike to get basic necessities.
My Sprinter is taller with a shorter hood, and more cargo capacity. The increase in size and height of pickups is bad design for ego.
